NISO 2018 Strategic Directions Document Identifies Emerging Trends for Future Standards Work

*NISO 2018 Strategic Directions Document Identifies Emerging Trends for
Future Standards Work*

*Baltimore, MD - April 10, 2018  *- The Architecture Committee of the
National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published its 2018
update of the
*NISO Strategic Directions* document which will be used by its leadership
groups, the NISO Topic Committees, to direct the future development
portfolios of standards and recommended practices. The three NISO Topic
Committees -- Information Creation & Curation, Information Discovery &
Interchange, and Information Policy & Analysis-- produced a list of general
trends and themes in their respective areas of work, noting these
information issues affecting libraries, publishers, system vendors and
other members of the information distribution community. The document
describes the inter-relations between these community stakeholders and, in
some cases, potential overlaps in committee work. The NISO Topic Committees
are using the updated 2018
*Strategic Directions* document to prioritize potential future activities
where NISO should be engaged in developing new standards and recommended
practices.

The NISO Framework was developed in 2007 as an overarching model and
roadmap for NISO's standards work. To refresh the Framework, every few
years, the NISO Architecture Committee and the Topic Committees that work
under its guidance undertake a comprehensive review of their current and
recent portfolios and discuss their overall scopes of work. This most
recent review was augmented with a public stakeholder survey, which led to
a restructuring of the Topic Committees to better ensure they appropriately
address gaps in the information standardization landscape. After the Topic
Committees reorganized with new names and modest shifts in their
portfolios, they turned to updating the *Strategic Directions* document to
ensure they are focused on the most current, developing and influential
areas of work.

"NISO operates in a complex environment with many interrelated components
and it is important to continue to verify that our work serves our
stakeholders," explains Keith Webster, Dean of Libraries at Carnegie Mellon
University, Vice Chair of the NISO Board of Directors, and Chair of the
NISO Architecture Committee. "The work over the past several months to
update the Strategic Directions document has been a very fruitful exercise
to ensure that Topic Committee members are focusing their efforts in the
right areas."
"We are pleased with the work the Topic Committees and Architecture
Committee has done, as it concentrates our attention on the considerable
standards work that needs attention," states Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive
Director. "We look forward to further planning and discussions based on the
new *Strategic Directions* document to put into action the most effective
standards development efforts. NISO will continue to encourage
participation from libraries, content providers, and system vendors as
these projects are advanced."

The NISO 2018 Strategic Directions document is available on the NISO
website at: https://www.niso.org/publications/niso-strategic-directions-2018
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NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and maintenance
of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and
effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in
research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information
standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American
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